Quotes on Success

Mentality is where the success is. I will teach the kids how to think in a positive way.

To win is not important. To be successful is not even important. How to plan and prepare is crucial. When you plan very well and prepare very well, then success can come on the way. Then winning can come on your way.

Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

In a person's career, well, if you're process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you're more likely to be success. I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

The men who miss success have two general alibis: 'I'm not a genius' is one; the other, 'There aren't the opportunities today there used to be.' Neither excuse holds. The first is beside the point; the second is altogether wrong.

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

Most people yearn to contribute, make the world a better place and have success.... all at the same time... Make sure to give your business a background, a mission and a story. That might be the most important step part of any venture. And remember, giving may be the best investment you ever make.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

I live in a country where music has very little success, though, exclusive of those who have forsaken us, we have still admirable professors and, more particularly, composers of great solidity, knowledge, and taste.

In certain businesses, I would say 10 failures to one success is a perfectly acceptable ratio. Because the failures die pretty quickly, they're not that expensive, and the successes can be really huge.

The thing you don't dream about as a kid is all the peripheral stuff that comes with success.

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.

A success, to me, is the ability to keep working. That's success. It has nothing to do with money; it's the ability to keep getting things made, period.

I never thought much about success early on. I only thought about being a comedian - or just being in show business, is really more accurate.

I never thought about success. I always thought about doing the job at hand. My goal was getting through the show that night.

The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say.

The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.'

Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.